John Byrom
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John Byrom, John Byrom of Kersal, or John Byrom of Manchester was an English poet, the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner. He is most remembered as the w
Portrait of Byrom as a young man
Kersal Cell
Newspaper advertisement for Byrom's shorthand system from the Daily Gazetteer, 1741
Byrom Hall, Lowton, Greater Manchester
Robert Thyer
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Robert Thyer was an 18th-century British writer and literary editor, best known as Chetham's Librarian. He was librarian from February 1732 to 3 October 1763 and, after his death, a number of his manu
Portrait by George Romney
